Atos at COP26: Global decarbonization leader underlines pivotal role of digital innovation in fight against climate change

Paris, Glasgow – November four, 2021,

In its participation and engagement at Glasgow COP26 this week Atos will spotlight escalating proof of the purpose that new and emerging digital methods engage in in serving to organisations of each description cut down emissions.

In demonstrating its primary global decarbonization qualifications by means of a motivation to offset residual emissions by 2028 along with introducing useful methods for its customer base as well as considerable R&D expense in future digital technologies aimed at decreasing emissions in new and productive strategies, Atos is urgent the case for accelerated progress toward internet-zero through its delegation of senior digital industry experts attending the summit.

Speaking at a panel organized by the United Nations Framework Conference on Climate Change (UNFCCC) tomorrow, Nourdine Bihmane, Worldwide Main Shipping Officer and Head of Web-Zero Transformation at Atos, will make the case for digital, not only as an enabler of the transition to internet-zero but as a key accelerator of this course of action.

In advance of the panel party, Nourdine Bihmane stated: “I imagine a internet-zero future is attainable, but we ought to consider bold motion on a global scale. On this journey that we want to accelerate, digital is a lever to support the two personal and community sectors. Knowledge is at the center of this, to make correct and timely decisions to measure, cut down and then remove extra CO2 from the ambiance. At Atos, we have developed an conclude-to-conclude portfolio leveraging the two technologies and mother nature-based mostly methods to support this significant transition for our customers.”

Around the study course of COP26, Atos will:

• Interact with global company leaders from the technologies sector, community sector, and other industries to strengthen information of the scale of the sustainability challenge and focus on how they can get the job done collaboratively to deal with it. This get the job done is supported by a the latest once-a-year report from EcoAct, an Atos organization, which contains Climate Reporting Performance assessment position the major twenty providers in the FTSE one hundred, DOW 30 and EURO STOXX fifty for local weather disclosure, serving to firms in the decarbonization room fully grasp how they are performing versus their local weather aims.
• Take a central purpose in the DEFRA Tech for Climate Motion to take a look at and suggest technologies and improvements for creating resilience, mitigating emissions, and accomplishing internet-zero by 2050 in alignment with the IPCC recommendations, as well as the critical purpose protected digital tools engage in in slicing carbon emissions.
• Suggest concrete motion by means of innovation these types of as Terra² a revolutionary cellular software that offers beneficial local weather details enabling conclusion makers and influencers to make details-driven decisions, supporting the COP26 ambition.

Atos offers a backdrop to COP26 motion with Electronic Eyesight: COP26 – its the latest impression paper inspecting how corporations in each sector can harness digital technologies to accelerate progress to internet-zero targets and condition a sustainable future, with contributions from Atos industry experts and senior figures in company and politics.

Along with this, an short article from Atos British isles and Northern Europe CEO Clay Van Doren – ‘Green Cloud: How collaboration is unlocking the eco-friendly potential of cloud computing’ –has been revealed in techUK’s most up-to-date report, Climate Tech: The Innovators, launched at the organisation’s COP26 Reception at the Trades Corridor of Glasgow past night.

Clay Van Doren, CEO, British isles & Ireland and Northern Europe at Atos, stated: “As a direct actor in the decarbonization room giving the two actionable methods now, and R&D expense for the long-expression, Atos calls on governments to seize this momentous opportunity for urgent collective motion to supply lasting modify. Possessing dedicated to internet-zero by 2028 and as a signatory of the Climate Pledge ranked Range 1 in the IT products and services sector by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes, we will direct the charge supporting governments and firms to arrive at internet-zero. That is why we are getting a whole and lively purpose in COP26.”

Rated Range 1 in the IT products and services sector by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI) Earth and Europe, Atos delivers an conclude-to-conclude digital solution to enable decarbonization and supply considerable modify for customers and partners on their journey to internet-zero. The organization has its individual motivation to cut down the global carbon emissions beneath its management and influence by fifty% by 2025, and to offset its residual emissions by 2028 – seven several years ahead of the 2035 concentrate on previously established by the company.

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About Atos

Atos is a global chief in digital transformation with 107,000 staff and once-a-year income of around € 11 billion. European variety a person in cybersecurity, cloud and higher effectiveness computing, the Group offers personalized conclude-to-conclude methods for all industries in 71 international locations. A pioneer in decarbonization products and services and products and solutions, Atos is dedicated to a protected and decarbonized digital for its customers. Atos is a SE (Societas Europaea), shown on Euronext Paris and incorporated on the CAC 40 ESG and Upcoming twenty Paris Inventory Indexes.

The purpose of Atos is to support design the future of the data room. Its experience and products and services support the enhancement of information, education and learning and investigate in a multicultural solution and contribute to the enhancement of scientific and technological excellence. Across the entire world, the Group enables its consumers and staff, and members of societies at big to stay, get the job done and acquire sustainably, in a safe and sound and protected data room.

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